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How many copies did A Weekend in Puzzleburg sell?

Estimated copies sold
≈ 99–161
$545–$1k after Steam's cut $990–$2k before the cut
from 4 reviews (4 user reviews)
Thin evidence: 4 reviews. That range swings on one or two people, so read it as a hint, not a measurement.

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left A Weekend in Puzzleburg out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including A Weekend in Puzzleburg's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 21k–168k
best case 539k (Spirit City: Lofi Sessions)
Games like A Weekend in Puzzleburg

The middle of these games

≈ 21k–168k copies

≈ $186k–$752k after Steam's cut

from ~2k reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

5 of your 8 similar games are hits.

Best case: Spirit City: Lofi Sessions at ≈ 411k–668k copies, ≈ $1.4M–$3.6M after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here
About half the games that made it here had over 474 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 53 to 3k.
The genre you'd be entering
Your set
Your set clusters on Cozy (8 of 8) and Wholesome (7 of 8).
The winners
Winners here lead with Cozy + Utilities, priced around $12.
The era
4 of your 8 similar games shipped in the last two years, so this niche is actively shipping.
How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate of about 31, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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